Eleven more faculty at the School of Natural Resources and Environment have become part of winning MCubed projects funding by the university under a new interdisciplinary program.
Rachel Kaplan, the Samuel Trask Dana Professor of Environment and Behavior at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, has received the 2012 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award. The annual award honors and encourages the efforts and accomplishments of University of Michigan faculty who serve as effective mentors of doctoral students. Recipients are recognized for service as adviser, teacher, advocate, sponsor and role model. Kaplan joined SNRE in 1973 as an associate professor and has been a professor since 1978. She has a dual appointment in the Department of Psychology within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. In 2000, her work was honored by the school when she was named the Samuel Trask Dana Professor.
Metamorphosis is stressful. So said SNRE professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Bobbi Low to incoming University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School students in the keynote lecture of the fall welcome ceremony on September 2. Professor Low, who used to research toad skin secretions, likened new doctoral students to tadpoles, which have no reproductive organs; by the time the students graduate, they will be metaphorical toads, producing new research and generating ideas.